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Smarvy mentioned in another post:
Alex, sometimes after browsing the site for around ten links or so, I get a super-slow one, and I have to restart the browser to get back on.
Anybody else with such problems? It could be a temporary thing with the server, I guess. Smarvy, does this happen regularly? -
Sometimes when you click the add your comments tab, it will remain idle.But after hitting the refresh tab, the post sometimes is there and sometimes not. However I am not sure if this is your server problem so to say or just because of my own providers sluggishness.
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Yes Alex, this has happened to me since I started coming here. I also check the site from home and work, so I don't think it's the particular setup of either computer. However, I do live in Hawai'i, so it may be the geographical remoteness of my location coming into play, I don't know. To give you a little more detail on the problem, I have clicked on a link in the past, and watched the little icon go in the upper right corner of Firefox (which is a similarity between my home and work machines), and gone out to work (bleh) for an hour or so, and the page is still loading when I come back to my desk. One thing I will do is try browsing the site in IE and see if that makes a difference. It's not a huge problem or anything, I don't want you losing sleep over it!
Aloha,
Justin -
Thank you two guys. I had some trouble after starting the website, but after some days of setting it up, I didn't realise any speed problems. There shouldn't be a difference between IE and Firefox, I guess. Could you do me one last favour? If the site doesn't load proper again, could you try to surf another website to check if it is just this one? If you haven't done it already, of course.
If the problem remains, I'll give my host a call. They handle problems like this quite well. Thank you for your support. I hate websites which load for hours, and I don't want to hate my own one. :) -
Alex, I've experienced the same problem that smarvy mentioned. Hitting the reload button usually brings the site up right away, however. Not a big problem....
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All right. I will talk to my host than. Let's see what he will say.
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Aloha Alex,
I just experienced a slow down as mentioned above, and I browsed to another site without any problem, then came back here, and the loading problem resumed. Once I closed the browser and restarted it, no problem, I got on back here quick as a bunny. I wonder if it may be cross-globe internet communication that's the problem, as I'm about as far as I can get from Germany, without going through the Astronaut program and opening myself up to perverse love triangles ending in attempted murder beim Tragen einer Windel.
Merlin, what's your 20?
Also, I would like to repeat that this isn't a big problem. It certainly doesn't stop me from enjoying this extraordinarily enjoyable community we have created.
Aloha,
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Justin, New Jersey here. And, I had the same thought, regarding the lag.. It might be a kink in the Trans Atlantic cable or something? ;) And Alex, Don't sweat it too much....Just as Justin said, It's not a big deal and doesn't detract in the least from the enjoyment I get from chatting with all my newfound friends.
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Even though I didn't really get the point with that 'Windel' joke, I had to laugh. :-)
I wonder why that restarting the browser thing helps. Are you both using Firefox, latest version (2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2 since some minutes)? -
Using the firefox 2.0.0.2 here. and come to think of it. haven't had the problem in a few days.
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Might be worth mentioning that there have been some DDOS attacks on the world's major DNS servers in the past three weeks or so which almost succeeded in bringing down the internet. I've had some problems here and there; for example, I couldn't get to a drivers download page on HP's site for a couple of days. Dang botnets anyway.
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Yep, I'm using the 2.0.0.2 version as well. Alex, did you read about the astronauts love triangle? One of them wore a diaper so she could drive from Houston to Florida without stopping to use the restroom... so she could confront another astronaut she perceived was competing for the affection of a third astronaut. Bizarro.
Aloha!
Justin
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I didn't read about that...bizarre in fact!
Windel is right, yes.
So Justin, did you have had some problems during the last days?
Andy, I didn't know that. I had no problems at all during that time. Maybe only the American continent was affected? -
The way I heard it (on a couple of Leo Laporte podcasts), it was global. I guess there's only about 14 main DNS root servers, and since there are estimated to be something like 150 million zombied computers, it's easy to see how there could be problems if somebody wanted to be difficult. 2/3 of all email traffic is spam, too. What a wonderful world.
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Ahh Spam.........remember the days when it was just a qwerky food item????
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And a good thing it existed then, or we'd have been deprived of an excellent Monty Python routine.
When I open a can of Spam nowadays, I expect to find some soda crackers and a pack of Luckies in there too. :-) It's so WWII MRE. -
LOL C Rations!!!!!! Gotta Love em!!! EVer have an MRE?? BLEACK!!!!!!! although the cookies are kinda good. LOL
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Not bad as backpacking food, although a little heavy. Surplus stores sell 'em. The self-heating feature is nice, though a little frightening somehow.
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My host told me that they upgraded the relevant server during the weekend. Thus, the problem should not occur any more. If it still comes up, please let me know.
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I'd have to agree on the self heating being rather unsettling, but it's handy!!! ;)
Alex. Thanks!!! Will let you know. -
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CommentAuthorprecambrian_critter
- CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
OH, to hear you guys dissin' my SPAM!!! It hurts my heart...I grew up on it. In fact, I keep it stocked in our emergency preparedness kits. I think it'll be remembered in history as the most maligned yet most useful food in the world when it's all said and done! lol
MRE's on the other hand, uh...no. Expensive, and blech. Although, not all of it is horrible. The peanut butter cookie thing is quite good... The heaters are pretty scary...they work quite well (I think they're sodium metal reacting with water), which can actually catch fire and explode, so they always made me a little nervous.
That reminds me...you guys ever seen the hand warmer packs that have a saline solution in them and a disk of metal; you flex the disk, and the whole thing crystallizes within a few seconds and gets hard and very hot; it stays solid when it cools. Then you "rejuvenate" it by boiling it in a pot of water. I used to have a couple of them, they worked really great. I need to look them up again... -
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Just had un kine Spam Musubi yesterday... mmmmmmmmm Musubi. You gotta un kine wit da furikake on it tho bra.
Aloha,
Justin -
The travel writer Paul Theroux claims that the reason Spam is so popular with Polynesians is that it tastes like human. Seems reasonable.
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To wit:
"It was a theory of mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. `Long pig' as they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which also had a corpsy flavor." -- Paul Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania -
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CommentAuthorprecambrian_critter
- CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007
Great. Thanks. I'll never eat SPAM again. 34 years of pleasure shot to hell. ...uh....nevermind...here piggy piggy piggy.... -
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Theroux later admitted that his statements were intended to be a joke, but it was fun while it lasted. :-)
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A Modest Proposal.....to be sure ;)
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Say, that's pretty swift of you. :-)
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Literature nerds...
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